11/11/2009 @ 6:00PM

Deepak Chopra Picks The World's Seven Most Powerful Teachers

No. 5: Tenzin Gyatso

Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tibet

He is world-famous as the face of Eastern spirituality. His life embodies every truth he speaks, but he also works tirelessly to advance knowledge of the brain in its higher functions. His abiding lesson is about compassion.